A cannabis-positive tram driver who ran over a pedestrian on Monday April 26 was indicted and left free at the end of his custody, we learned on Wednesday from the Grenoble prosecutor's office.
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The 54-year-old man "
was presented Wednesday April 28 before an investigating judge who indicted him for the offense of involuntary injuries resulting in an ITT not exceeding 3 months by manifestly deliberate violation of an obligation prudence or security imposed by law or regulation,
”said Boris Duffau, deputy prosecutor of Grenoble.
The driver preferred to remain silent according to the same source. He was placed under judicial control, with the ban on driving trams and public transport vehicles. Monday around noon, a pedestrian was hit while "
he was running across the tracks
" near a tram stop in the north of the city, police said. The pedestrian, a 28-year-old man, had not been seen entering the lanes reserved by the tram driver, according to the same source. The young man, hit in the head and pelvis, was seriously injured and evacuated to the city hospital. His vital prognosis was still engaged on Wednesday, according to the regional daily Dauphiné Libéré.
Questioned by France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the director general of Semitag, which operates the tramway in Grenoble, assures us that "
the driver involved had no known or accident-causing precedents
" and that he had "
been declared fit without restrictions
”by occupational medicine. The man faces up to a year in prison.